By: Rosmarie Lohnes BA CoEn, President Helping Nature Heal Inc. Soil is the basis of everything on Earth including food, clean air, and water. When we care for the soil, we care for our own well-being. 2015 has been declared the International Year of Soils by the United Nations. I was thrilled to learn this,… [Read More]
Why ‘On the Edge’?
The edge is where we work as landscapers and educators. At Helping Nature Heal, we engage in healing and restoring the edges between human activity and our ecosystems. These edges are often challenging, but we see them as places of growth and opportunity: the opportunity to plant a tree that will capture carbon, to reintroduce… [Read More]
Helping Nature Heal—Living Shorelines
Living Shoreline Restorations
Living Shorelines
Understanding Coastal Erosion Coastlines are dynamic ecosystems that transform naturally through the processes of erosion, sediment transport and deposition. Erosion describes sediment movement caused by the forces of water and wind. It’s a natural and necessary process that maintains ecosystems like beaches, salt marshes and estuaries, but also changes your coastal landscape. A Living Shoreline… [Read More]
HNH Species Stockyard – Enviro Commitment
HNH Species Stockyard – Enviro Commitment & Remediation Obligation HNH will acquire native plants, seeds, cutting and root divisions from the Native Species Stockyard. HNH will use plants and seeds which have originated locally along with “Adopted Heritage Plants.” HNH will make the best effort not to transport and plant locally adapted seed more than… [Read More]
Our Commitment
We are not just a business, we see ourselves as an umbrella where sustainability projects can incubate and grow. We understand that you cannot split economy, society, and environment, they are an interconnected web with each part relying on the others. If there is no environment to work in and keep workers healthy then there… [Read More]
Helping Nature Heal—Sustainability
Helping Nature Heal Green Roof
Rock Gardens
The Chester Garden Club blog features a story about Helping Nature Heal’s unique approach to using rocks in the garden. https://chestergardenclub.wordpress.com/2014/06/30/a-rocks-role-in-the-garden/
What would it take?
What would it take to revitalize your relationship with nature? Get you outside, in tune with and alive to your surroundings? Do you have a place to sit and feel the wind on your face when the human-focused world is stressing you out? Or do you have a backyard that makes you tired just looking… [Read More]
Garden Mentoring
Imagine that you’ve moved to your retirement home, a dreamy piece of property on a hilly cove of the South Shore, and you’ve hired a restorative landscaping company to add greenery, texture, places for the dogs to play, a wildflower meadow, a vegetable garden… The result is a verdant work-in-progress. It’s cut down on a… [Read More]
The Conscious Gardener
Meet Rita Baruss: a thinker, writer, artist, mother, grandmother, yoga instructor and energy healer with training in shamanic techniques. Rita has been gardening organically all of her life. Rita has a unique position on the HNH team: she has a special interest in plant consciousness and developing communications with the spirit beings of nature. In… [Read More]
Planting Day
Only 40 more to go! Last week we spent a day planting. At this property, planting was a culmination of a long process of choosing a landscaping company, consulting, designing, constructing beds, and finally, picking out plants. In the process of building the house, much of the surrounding landscape had been stripped of topsoil and… [Read More]